CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bolsover
Bolsover has 35 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 13,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,182 homes.
Ranks 166 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hurst Farm, Mansfield Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemLightsource BP | Battery | 100 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00302/FUL |
| Newton Wood FarmAnesco | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/00202/FUL |
| Eden Meadows, Stretton Road, Morton - Solar PV Panels & Battery Energy Storage SystemJBM Solar | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Refused by North East Derbyshire Council in 2025Who can move it: North East Derbyshire Council · planning ref 23/01089/FL |
| Lodge Farm, Calow - Battery Energy Storage SystemEnray Power | Battery | 25 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/01034/MFL |
| Frithwood Farm, Frithwood Lane - Solar FarmElgin Energy EsCo Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00583/FUL |
Plus 4 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolsover | 35 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| Ashfield | 7.8 MW | 4.7 MW | not visible |
| Amber Valley | 28 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Derbyshire Dales | 16 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| North East Derbyshire | 50 MW | 9 MW | not visible |
| Chesterfield | 1.5 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
North East Derbyshire next door has 50 MW waiting, more than Bolsover's 35 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 3 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.